Vaughn Hardy recently rejected a $16,000,000 five year contract with the Vancouver Seals hockey team. The contract offer called for an immediate signing bonus of $6,000,000 and annual payments of $2,000,000. To sweeten the deal, the president of player personnel for the Seals has now offered a $17,600,000 five year contract. This contract calls for annual increases and a balloon payment at the end of five years.

Year 1 2,000,000

Year 2 2,080,000

Year 3 2,160,000

Year 4 2,240,000

Year 5 2,320,000

Year 5 balloon payment 6,800,000

Total $17,600,000

Suppose you are Hardy's agent and you wish to evaluate the two contracts using a required rate of return of 15%. In present value terms, how much better is the second contract?

Present value of old Contract___________

Present value of new contract__________

In present value terms, the second contract is better or not better than the old one.

factor table for 15% is:

present value of $1 due in n periods: 1-0.8696 2-0.7561 3-0.6575 4-0.5718 5- 0.4972

present value of an annuity of $ per period 15% 1-0.8696 2-1.6467 3-2.2832 4- 2.8550 5-3.3522

if this does not work let me know table is very large